1st Edition

Co-Creating Tourism Research Towards Collaborative Ways of Knowing

    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    200 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Co-creation has become a buzzword in many social science disciplines, in business and in tourism studies. Given the prominence of co-creation, surprisingly little discussion has evolved around its implications for research practices and knowledge production as well as what challenges there are for fulfilling the promise of co-creation in tourism research.





    This book aims to contribute to this discussion by addressing how tourism research comes together as a collaborative achievement and by exploring different ways of collaborative knowledge production in tourism research. It is structured to offer, on one hand, an introduction to the ontological basis for collaborative research and, on the other hand, a set of empirical examples of how collaborative knowledge creation can inform tourism design, management, policy and education.





    The theoretical accounts and empirical cases of this book display how research collaborations can offer modest, local yet often impactful insights, traces and effects. It therefore will be of value for students, researchers and academics in tourism studies as well as the wider social sciences.

    1. Co-creation of tourism knowledge



    Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, René van der Duim





    2. Balancing values: Co-creation in and out of academia



    René van der Duim, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Carina Ren





    3. Collaborative becoming. Exploring tourism knowledge collectives



    Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson





    4. Making matter in the midst of things: Engaging with tourism imponderables through research



    Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Katrín Anna Lund, Carina Ren





    5. Disruptive ethnography and knowledge co-creation



    Peter Lugosi





    6. Participatory landscape designing for tourism planning: The case of Murter Island, Croatia Marlies Brinkhuijsen, Irena Ateljevic, René van der Duim, Dion Koens, Luuk van den Berg





    7. Bridge-builders, scouts and ‘idiots’. Exploring topologies of tourism student collaboration Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Carina Ren, Dejan Krizaj





    8. Doing research on, for and with tourism organisations during innovation processes



    Kirsti Mathiesen Hjemdahl, Tor Helge Aas





    9. Engaging with wind shelters



    Outi Rantala, Miia Mäkinen





    10. Knowing the Aquatic Other: Unleashing Blackfish



    Felicity Picken





    11. Stories of Hope? Journeys in the Dark European Arctic



    Britt Kramvig, Hilde Methi





    12. Towards a collaborative manifesto. Configurations of tourism knowledge co-creation Carina Ren, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, René van der Duim



    Biography

    Carina Ren is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. She is interested in how tourism interferes with other fields of the social through cultural innovation and explores new ways in which tourism is developed, organised and valued. Her research often takes place in research collaborations with tourism organisations and industry, citizens and students.



    Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson is Professor at the Department of Geography and Tourism, University of Iceland. His recent research has been on destination dynamics and place making with a focus on the entanglement of nature and culture. This has involved studies on entrepreneurship, innovation and policy making. He is a co-editor of Actor-Network Theory and Tourism: Ordering, materiality and multiplicity, published in 2012 with Routledge and Tourism Encounters and Controversies: Ontological Politics of Tourism Development, published with Ashgate in 2015.



    René van der Duim is Professor at the Cultural Geography Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He holds a PhD on the relation between tourism and sustainable development making use of insights from actor-network theory. He has executed research and educational projects in countries like Thailand, Nepal, Costa Rica, Tanzania, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, Portugal and the Netherlands and is also chair of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS). He has co-edited 5 books and has published his work in journals such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Tourism Management.